Thousands of people from the Periyanesallur village in the district on Saturday joined the family in the funeral of the Class 12 student whose body was found on her school hostel premises in Kallakurichi on July 13. The body of the girl student was brought in an ambulance from the Kallakurichi government hospital where it was kept for the last 10 days, after the grieving mother signed the papers accepting the body for performing the last rites.